Making our World a Better Place

Digital technologies have become integral to the lives of children and young people in today’s society, both within schools and in their lives outside school.

The internet and other digital and information technologies are powerful tools, which open up new opportunities for everyone. Electronic communication helps teachers and pupils learn from each other. These technologies can stimulate discussion, promote creativity and increase awareness of context to promote effective learning. Children and young people should have an entitlement to safe internet access at all times.

The use of these exciting and innovative tools in school and at home has been shown to raise educational standards and promote pupil achievement.

At Menston Primary School we teach children how to manage the risks associated with using digital equipment and the internet both in and out of school. E-safeguarding is taught as part of our computing curriculum and is also taught as part of our broader safeguarding curriculum through PSHE and assemblies.

We have a team of e-safeguarding champions who are taking part in the Childnet E-safety Digital Leaders programme. They deliver e-safety messages to all children in school through posters, assemblies, lessons and and our website.

To mark Safer Internet Day, our E-safety champions delivered assemblies to KS1 and KS2 children. These assemblies were full of interesting facts about online safety and gave children across school some clear messages about how to keep themselves and others safe online.

Our Year 6 pupils have created e-safety presentations, which they have designed for presentation to other pupils in school. Click here to see an example of a presentation.